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This Is How We Care
085: How We Build the Evolved Nest We Need to Thrive with Dr. Darcia Narvaez
In this episode of This Is How We Care, we sit down with developmental psychologist and author Dr. Darcia Narvaez to explore what children—and humanity—truly need to thrive.Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, Indigenous wisdom, and decades of research, Dr. Narvaez introduces the concept of the Evolved Nest: the caregiving system humans evolved with for 99% of our history—and how far modern culture has drifted from it.Together, Emily and Darcia unpack how early “undercare” shapes everything from individual anxiety to collective violence, how capitalism and colonization disrupted our natural caregiving systems, and what it looks l...
2026-01-14
57 min
Biohacking and Beyond! with ELi Abela
Episode 38:Actualizing the Human Potential with Dr. Darcia Narvaez and the Evolved Nest Blueprint
Biohacking and Beyond Podcast EpisodeKeywords: biohacking, moral development, early caregiving, community, trauma healing, breastfeeding, play, child development, neurobiology, social connectionSummary Host Elizabeth Abela talks with Dr. Darcia Narvaez about how early caregiving shapes neurobiology, emotions, morality & lifelong health. She shares the Evolved Nest framework—nature’s guide for raising resilient kids via responsive care, breastfeeding, play & community. They discuss trauma healing through self-regulation & safe relationships, cultural parenting effects, and the Nested Ambassador Program to support families.Key Takeaways - Earl...
2026-01-12
53 min
The Rose Woman
Evolutionary Wisdom + Neuroscience for Flourishing Children (and other Humans) with Dr. Darcia Narvaez
Dear Rosies,In this week’s episode of the Rose Woman, we explore the foundations of human flourishing with Dr. Darcia Narvaez, a groundbreaking researcher who bridges neuroscience, anthropology, and evolutionary wisdom. Dr. Narvaez is an explorer of human potential, asking profound questions about how early experiences shape our moral development, well-being, and connection to the world around us.Dr. Narvaez examines how early life experiences (the evolved nest) influence moral functioning and well-being in children and adults. Questions that interest her include: How does early experience shape human nature? What can sustainable in...
2025-07-17
43 min
Local Futures Podcast
The Bristol Conversation – Darcia Narvaez
Welcome to the Bristol Conversations, a new podcast and video series by Local Futures. In these longer-format, meandering episodes, our founder Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks with some of the great minds who joined us in Bristol for the Planet Local Summit. We kick the series off with Darcia Narvaez. Darcia is professor emerita of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She studies morality, child development and human flourishing, and she does so by integrating disciplines like anthropology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. Helena, in turn, holds a very compatible perspective on human development thanks to her...
2025-07-15
24 min
Wild Heart Revival
E24 | Darcia Narvaez | Our Need for Nestedness: Nurturing Children and Community the Natural Way
...“We all need nestedness throughout life.”— Darcia Narvaez..TICKETS TO DANCING WITH DARKNESS..Drawing from her personal experiences, research, and insights, Darcia invites us to rethink relationship, reimagine kinship, and rediscover child-rearing through an ecological lens. We discuss her research on “the evolved nest” and how it can inspire more balanced, harmonious ways of living and growing together.We explore the layers of nestedness...
2025-01-21
1h 08
Sounds of SAND
#115 Remembering Nature’s Ways: Darcia Narvaez
In this live SAND Community Gathering (January 2025), SAND co-founders Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo welcome Darcia Narvaez, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss her interdisciplinary research on evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing. Narvaez shares insights from her book, The Evolved Nest, and explores the impact of modern parenting practices, the benefits of communal child-rearing, and the neurological and emotional development of children. The discussion also holds space for the importance of nature immersion, indigenous practices, and the detrimental effects of trauma on development. The episode concludes with practical tips for parents and...
2025-01-16
55 min
The Infinite Middle
The Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
In this conversation, Darcia Narvaez discusses her book 'The Evolved Nest' and the importance of nurturing practices in childhood development. She emphasizes the need for community, connection, and understanding the natural instincts of children. The discussion covers various aspects of parenting, including the significance of breastfeeding, the role of play and nature, and the impact of technology on children's development. Narvaez advocates for a return to ancestral wisdom in raising children and highlights the importance of responsive relationships throughout life. The Evolved Nest (Evolved Developmental Niche) (academic papers)Co-Founder, EvolvedNest.Org (podcasts, info...
2024-12-07
52 min
What is a Good Life?
What is a Good Life? #99 - Helping Spirit Flow with Darcia Narvaez
On the 99th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Darcia Narvaez. Darcia is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, and Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing. Her most recent books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, and The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Her book, Neurobiology and the Development of...
2024-12-03
1h 05
Raising Parents: The Parenting Science Insights podcast
Darcia Narvaez: Childhood Flourish – The Essence of the Evolved Nest | Raising Parents #58
Welcome to another exciting episode of Raising Parents: The Parenting Science Insights Podcast, hosted by Marie Stella Quek. In this episode, we delve into the heart of child development with a fascinating discussion on "Childhood Flourish – The Essence of the Evolved Nest." Get ready to explore revolutionary ideas that could transform your parenting approach and nurture a thriving future for your children. Our guest today is Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. A distinguished Fellow of multiple prestigious associations, Darcia's interdisciplinary research spans evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing. She ha...
2024-08-02
40 min
Raising Parents: The Parenting Science Insights podcast
Darcia Narvaez: Childhood Flourish – The Essence of the Evolved Nest | Raising Parents #58
Welcome to another exciting episode of Raising Parents: The Parenting Science Insights Podcast, hosted by Marie Stella Quek. In this episode, we delve into the heart of child development with a fascinating discussion on "Childhood Flourish – The Essence of the Evolved Nest." Get ready to explore revolutionary ideas that could transform your parenting approach and nurture a thriving future for your children. Our guest today is Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. A distinguished Fellow of multiple prestigious associations, Darcia's interdisciplinary research spans evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing. She ha...
2024-08-02
40 min
Sage Family
Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
“Those who are nested are going to be . . . more fit . . . Evolution has done the experiments . . . so we don’t have to . . . do all those crazy things that researchers do because they don’t have any baseline for what is normal for our species in raising children, what I call ‘species typical’." Dr. Darcia Narvaez join me in today’s episode about the Evolved Nest. Darcia is a professor and author who studies evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing. We discuss the decision to have children, mutual accompaniment, breastfeeding, sharing care, free play, touch, emoti...
2024-07-16
54 min
Reflections on Living Well
Episode 19 | Darcia Narvaez
In this episode I speak with Darcia Narvaez, PhD. Darcia is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Born in Minnesota (USA), she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other endeavors. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing. Her most recent books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, and The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Co...
2024-05-20
1h 03
The Evolved Nest
10th Anniversary Celebration With Darcia Narvaez On The Book That Birthed The Evolved Nest
Read more about this interview: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/10th-anniversary-celebration-with-darcia-narvaezs-book-that-birth-the-evolved-nest-a-video-discussion/ Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s editor, and Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World’s president, discuss the book that started it all, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. First published in 2014, the book received the 2015 William James Book Award from Division I of the American Psychological Association as well as the Moral Development and Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. In 2017, the book was chosen from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries for the Vatican’s Expanded Reason Award. Since 2019, Darcia and Lisa have worked...
2024-05-11
29 min
Kindred World
10th Anniversary of THE Neurobiology Book with Darcia Narvaez
Read more: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/10th-anniversary-celebration-with-darcia-narvaezs-book-that-birth-the-evolved-nest-a-video-discussion/ Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s editor, and Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World’s president, discuss the book that started it all, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. First published in 2014, the book received the 2015 William James Book Award from Division I of the American Psychological Association as well as the Moral Development and Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. In 2017, the book was chosen from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries for the Vatican’s Expanded Reason Award. Since 2019, Darcia and Lisa have worked to bring this b...
2024-05-11
29 min
Entangled World
Restoring the Evolved Nest | Darcia Narvaez
My guest today is Darcia Narvaez. Darcia is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Born in Minnesota, U.S., she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, music teacher, Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other endeavors. Darcia uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing. Her most recent books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, and The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities bo...
2024-02-15
1h 18
The Dissenter
#899 Darcia Narvaez & Gay Bradshaw: The Evolved Nest
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2024-02-12
58 min
In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai
134. The Evolved Nest: How We Raise Healthy, Wellness-Informed Communities / Darcia Narvaez
Today, I speak with Darcia Narváez, award-winning author and Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame.Darcia is the founder of the public and professional educational outreach project The Evolved Nest Initiative, whose nonprofit mission is to share her science research into developing appropriate baselines for lifelong human wellness by meeting the biological needs of infants. This wellbeing baseline is imperative at this time as the United States ranks 41st out of 41 developed countries in public policies that support families. The former executive editor of the Journal of Moral...
2024-02-04
1h 00
Elevating Consciousness
Darcia Narvaez - How Child Development Impacts Human Morality
Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology whose work explores the neurobiology of moral development, evolved parenting practices, and small-band hunter-gatherer societies. In 2020, she was identified as one of the top 2 percent of scientists worldwide in a recent analysis of 8 million scientists around the world. She is the president of Kindred World a non-profit dedicated to creating a wisdom-based worldview and the founder of the Evolved Nest a Kindred World initiative that integrates findings across various fields that bear on child development, child raising, and adult behavior while promoting optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation and sociomoral intelligences. She is...
2023-12-16
1h 18
World of Wisdom
200. Darcia Narvaez - The evolved nest and the fact that how we care for eachother influences the world
Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at Notre Dame university (web, university) has lived many contexts and careers before she started her research on the Evolved nest and the kinship worldview. She has written a number of books on the topic of how we care for our children, or lack of care for them, has deep implications for the world we live in today. This conversation centers around that concept and how we can break the cycle (film) and re-imagine humanity (film) in ways that take us in more regenerative directions. This is an incredibly important and timely conversation. Host...
2023-12-13
1h 17
Latchkey Urchins & Friends
S3.E5. The Warmth of Nurturance: Healing Frozen Brains and Childhoods—Dr. Darcia Narvaez
Send us a textWe interview Darcia Narvaez, co-author of the book The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, is Fellow of American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for Psychological Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science. She studies evolved morality, child development & human flourishing in a transdisciplinary manner. Her book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won multiple awards. Recent books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, a...
2023-12-05
1h 08
Les Émergents
05. La théorie du «Nid Évolué» par Darcia Narvaez et G.A Bradshaw - Exploration de livre #2
Dans cet épisode, Élisabeth explore les neuf composantes de la niche écologique de soin des humains relevées par Darcia Narvaez dans son ouvrage The Evolved Nest. Sujets sensibles au menu! ______ Préparez les générations futures à une vie épanouissante, libérées de la nécessité perpétuelle de guérir leur enfance. Rejoignez Élisabeth Dufresne (Éducation Autrement), éducatrice à l’enfance, dans son nouveau podcast qui explore sans détour les fondamentaux de l’éducation des enfants : la théorie de l’attachement et le jeu libre. Depuis sa chambre nichée dans les Cant...
2023-12-04
45 min
The Caring Instinct
Joe & Olga with Darcia Narvaez on Nesting Our Children
What is more natural to humans, competition or cooperation? How does a child grow into a good person and how can we help? How do we cultivate joy, curiosity and flexibility, as opposed to fear and rigidity, the patterns our society finds itself in a lot of the time? Finally, how do we raise children that feel one with Nature, are nurtured by her wisdom and kind to other living things? This conversation is only an entryway to Darcia Narvaez’s rich work in psychology, neurobiology and anthropology. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. You can fi...
2023-09-28
38 min
Last Born In The Wilderness
351 / The Evolved Nest / Darcia Narvaez + G.A. Bradshaw
Darcia Narvaez returns to the podcast, along with co-author G.A. Bradshaw, to discuss their new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities published by North Atlantic Books. By drawing on the ancestral legacies of child-rearing and broader nesting practices and contemporary breakthroughs in neurology and developmental psychology, we can better understand how integral intergenerational cultural practices bear on the complex development of human beings. But, what of our animal kin? What are their evolved nests, and what lessons can we learn from them? How does a broken or intact human evolved nest impact...
2023-09-27
1h 14
Better Than Fine With Darlene Marshall
Encore Presentation: Dr Darcia Narvaez - Evolved Nest
With so many topics in wellness and wellbeing it can feel overwhelming to weave them all together, as if we're living out of sync with what people really need. In this encore episode of the “Better Than Fine” podcast, host Darlene Marshall is joined by featured guest, Dr. Darcia Narvaez whose recent book, Evolved Nest, focuses on the foundation of wellbeing that all of us evolved to thrive in.The most trusted name in fitness is now expanding into the wellness world. Become an NASM Certified Wellness Coach and you’ll be able to guide and mot...
2023-08-24
1h 07
Enjoy Anthology of Full Audiobooks in Kids, Animals & Nature
Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities - Darcia Narvaez
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected CommunitiesAuthor: Darcia NarvaezNarrator: Cindy KayFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7:05:10Language: EnglishRelease date: 08-08-2023Publisher: North Atlantic BooksGenres: Non-Fiction, PsychologySummary:A fascinating look into nurturing and parenting in the natural world, supplemented with original illustrations For readers of Becoming Animal and World of Wonders A beautiful resource for Nature advocates, parents-to-be, Animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore...
2023-08-08
7h 05
Resistance Radio
Resistance Radio interview of Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Minnesota, she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other things. In her academic career, she employs a lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing, integrating anthropology, n...
2023-08-07
52 min
Postpartum Production
S2E9 - Alloparenting in the Modern Era: Re-envisioning Parenting and Human Community with Dr Darcia Narvaez
**This episode is brought to you in partnership with the With Her and Mind Awareness Campaign of Mindful Philanthropy. Learn how you can act ‘with her in mind’ by visiting www.withherinmind.org.**_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_"Throughout life, we need people who are responsive to us, who listen, who think we matter enough to be listened to and who support us. And we also need alloparents. So all these components are not just for mom to do...
2023-07-12
51 min
The True Health Podcast
43) Darcia Narvaez (PhD): Childhood Psychology, Indigenous Wisdom & Reimagining Humanity
My guest today is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association and many others. Her work is powerful, ground-breaking and vast. It scales from something as seemingly small as a parent’s interaction with their crying baby, all the way to the full scope of human evolution, and the interplay between it all. She employs an interdisciplinary approach to studying child development, evolved morality and human flourishing, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, evolutionary and educational sciences. She hosts EvolvedNest.org, is president of...
2023-06-19
51 min
The Superhumanize Podcast
The Evolved Nest: Lessons from the Natural World to Raise Healthy Children and Create Global Peace with Dr. Darcia Narvaez and Dr. Gay Bradshaw
Welcome to another episode of The Superhumanize Podcast, where we explore groundbreaking ideas and practices that elevate our understanding of human potential. I'm your host, Ariane, and today we have the privilege of diving deep into the world of child development and connected communities with two remarkable guests, Dr. Darcia Narvaez and Dr. Gay Bradshaw.Dr. Darcia Narvaez is a renowned Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame and an esteemed scholar whose work has significantly shaped the field of developmental psychology. With a focus on moral development and the crucial role of early...
2023-05-28
51 min
Self Directed
Darcia Narvaez | The Evolved Nest: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Parenting and a Connected Society
What if the key to raising well-adjusted, connected children lies in the practices of our ancestors? Join us as we explore the evolved nest with Darcia Narvaez, diving into the fascinating world of natural birth, mothering, and the importance of soothing perinatal experiences. Through stories of our own births and parenting experiences, we'll uncover the consequences of our modern, medicalized birth systems and the need for a supportive, nurturing environment.In this conversation, we'll discuss the benefits of breastfeeding and the role of fathers in the nurturing process. We'll also examine the societal impact and p...
2023-05-04
1h 26
The Wise Effort Show
How the Indigenous Worldview Can Support Greater Harmony for All Beings on Planet Earth With Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez
Our worldview shapes our perceptions and actions towards each other and the world around us. In this special Earth Day episode, Diana Hill talks with Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez about the core precepts of an indigenous worldview. Together these precepts can guide us to live more harmoniously with each other and the earth. We explore the indigenous worldview’s emphasis on community welfare, respect for gender role fluidity, the sacred nature of competition, and living from our wise hearts.Related ResourcesGet enhanced show notes for this episodeOrder my book, Wise Effort: How to Fo...
2023-04-17
1h 02
Untaming
72. Darcia Narvaez: Evolved Nest
(Interview starts at 5.57) It is currently the Last Quarter of the Flower Moon here in the Southern Hemisphere. Award-winning neuroscience researcher Darcia Narvaez, PhD, was born in Minneapolis and spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia and Spain. She currently lives in South Bend, Indiana with her husband Daniel. Her current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and educational sciences in her theories and research about human nature and human development. More...
2022-11-16
58 min
PUNK Therapy | Psychedelic Underground Neural Kindness
12 - The Evolved Nest, Community, and Connection with Darcia Narvaez
Content Warning: Childhood trauma and violence.Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome Dr. Darcia Narvaez to the show to discuss her work on the neurobiology of moral development. They specifically address her Evolved Nest theory and shed light on how greater connections can heal. Dr. Narvaez explains in detail how the Evolved Nest is the set of developmental provisions we give to the young. There are nine components that affect development and which Dr. Narvaez studies. The first components specifically refer to infants but the rest involve adults with themes like nature, immersion and c...
2022-10-10
55 min
Adventures Through The Mind
Restoring The Kinship/Indigenous Worldview | Four Arrows & Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Darcia Narvaez, PhD and Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) join us to explore various precepts of the indigenous worldview—aka the kinship worldview—how we might restore that worldview in both our personal lives and the world at large. We also explore the basis of what a worldview is and why our guests propose there are only two, the indigenous/kinship worldview and the dominant/Western worldview. We go in-depth on the historical rise and impact of the dominant worldview and the intergenerational cycle of trauma it propagates; the left brain / right brain dynamic and how it aligns with...
2022-10-07
1h 56
CIIS Public Programs
Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez: On Indigenous Voices and Restoring the Kinship Worldview
Author and Professor of Education, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), and author and Professor Emerita of Psychology Darcia Narvaez have both written and lectured extensively on the need to integrate Indigenous worldviews into every aspect of society—from education to sustainability, wellness, and justice. In this episode, Four Arrows and Darcia offer a conversational exploration of their most recent collaboration as editors of the anthology, Restoring the Kinship Worldview, which presents the wisdom of Indigenous worldviews and how embracing these precepts can nourish our individual and collective lives in these challenging times through 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders including Mourning Do...
2022-10-06
54 min
UNVEILED: exploring psychedelics and spirituality
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Dr. Darcia Narvaez on Indigenous wisdom for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Dr. Darcia Narvaez, professor of Psychology at Notre Dame, talks about her new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth. We explore the insights that this worldview framework has to offer those interested in using plant-medicines to help bring balance healing to our world. https://darcianarvaez.com/ https://www.kindredmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Worldview-Chart-Starry-Sky-12-2021-FINAL.pdf For more information on psychedelics and the Canadian court challenge to gain legal access to these healing medicines check out check out https://therapsil.ca/
2022-08-18
1h 31
Kindred World
What Is Downshifting? With Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha
We can all become self-protective when we feel threatened and downshift to our survival systems which affect our perceptions and actions. This is part one of a two part podcast: 1. What Is Downshifting? 2. The Scope of Healing Our Evolved Nest is our Evolutionary Pathway to Wellbeing and Thriving Learn more about the Evolved Nest on Kindred Media: https://www.kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nest/ About Darcia Narvaez: https://www.kindredmedia.org/author/darcia-narvaez-phd/ About Mary Tarsha: https://www.kindredmedia.org/author/mary-tarsha/
2022-07-30
17 min
Enjoy Anthology of Full Audiobooks in Kids, Animals & Nature
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth - Darcia Narvaez
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet EarthAuthor: Darcia NarvaezNarrator: Darcia Narvaez, Sage Ryan, Wahinkpe Topa (four Arrows)Format: UnabridgedLength: 9:22:32Language: EnglishRelease date: 07-26-2022Publisher: North Atlantic BooksGenres: History, Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, North America, Social ScienceSummary:Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction...
2022-07-26
9h 22
The Superhumanize Podcast
The Nine Components of a Whole Human Experience, Overcoming Childhood Trauma, Instilling a Sense of Purpose in Youth and Much More with Dr. Darcia Narvaez
Many of us believe that the culture we live in mirrors innate human nature. But today’s dominant cultures of competitive destructive detachment are rare and recent. Nearly every other culture that has ever existed during our species history over millions of years has been one of connected cooperative companionship. We evolved in cooperative bands of kin and nonkin where we were nurtured and welcomed by all members of the community. We lived together, we gathered food together, we sang together, and we danced together. We knew it would have been impossible to survive on our own. But together, we...
2022-07-20
1h 04
The AllCreation Podcast
Dr. Darcia Narvaez on Restoring Connective Tissue
Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame and a research pioneer integrating work on child flourishing, human moral development, healthy psyche, and Indigenous Peoples' worldview. Professor Narvaez talks here about her breakthrough works, the meaning of "The Evolved Nest," and her new book, "Restoring the Kinship Worldview." She also shares principles and strategies for restoring feelings of connectedness, calm and security to your own life and to couples, families, and communities. About DarciaIn addition to being Professor Emerita of Psychology Emerita at Notre Dame, Darcia...
2022-06-21
58 min
Rough Drafts
Dr. Darcia Narvaez on "Restoring Connective Tissue"
Dr. Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame and a research pioneer integrating work on child flourishing, human moral development, healthy psyche, and Indigenous Peoples' social values. Professor Narvaez talks about her breakthrough work, the meaning of "The Evolved Nest," and her new book, "Restoring the Kinship Worldview."About DarciaDarcia Narvaez, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Psychology Emerita at Notre Dame, a fellow to the American Psychological Association, and a fellow to the American Educational Research Association. She's written, co-authored, and edited more than 20 books. Her...
2022-06-20
58 min
Last Born In The Wilderness
323 / Kinship Worldview / Darcia Narvaez + Four Arrows
Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows join me to discuss their recently published book ‘Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth,’ a work that contains "selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world—necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future." As I comment in the beginning of this discussion, reading this book has been a necessary balm to the various subjects I've explored on the podcast of late. This work has reminded me that our civilization's capacity for mass violence, systemic oppres...
2022-06-20
1h 04
The Ripple Effect Podcast
The Ripple Effect Podcast (Dr. Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs & Darcia Narvaez, PhD | Restoring the Kinship Worldview)
Professor Darcia Narvaez returns to the show, with author Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs, to discuss their new book, RESTORING THE KINSHIP WORLDVIEW: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth.DARCIA NARVAEZ, PhDRestoring The Kinship Worldview (Book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690771/restoring-the-kinship-worldview-by-wahinkpe-topa-four-arrows/Website: https://darcianarvaez.com/Website: https://evolvednest.org/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoralLandscapesUniversity of Notre Dame page: https://sites.nd.edu/darcianarvaez/DR. DON "FOUR ARROWS" JACOBS Restoring The Kinship Worldview (Book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690771/re...
2022-05-12
1h 11
Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & More
Indigenous Wisdom for Parenting - Darcia Narvaez
Today, we're going to be sitting down with Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame and host of EvolvedNest.org. She's also the author of the award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom. Listen in as we talk about indigenous wisdom, the “Evolved Nest,” and their influence on health, wellbeing, our society, and our kids.*New!* Watch video clips from this episode on the Mindful Mama Youtube channel!If you enjoyed this episode, and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about...
2022-04-19
53 min
Adventures Through The Mind
Reclaiming Our Humanity with The Evolved Nest | Darcia Narvaez PhD - ATTMind 158
Dr. Darcia Narvaez joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to explore how early life experiences shape our morality and culture in adulthood and the kind of early life that leads to human thriving—what she calls The Evolved Nest. We also explore the impact 10,000 years of unnested children is having on our psychology, our morality, and our civilization as a whole; how early life nesting experiences lead to what Narvaez's calls Cycled Of Cooperative Companionship; and how the undercare of being unnested leads to Cycles Of Competitive Detachment—the cycle most of us are locked into now...
2022-04-03
1h 29
Play It Forward, A Wearthy Podcast
Paying attention Feat. Darcia Narvaez
In Episode 2, Season 3 of Play it Forward, Lukas reconnects with Professor of Psychology Emerita at Notre Dame University, Darcia Narvaez. In 2020, Darcia was identified as one of the top 2% of scientists worldwide. She is an award-winning author and the founder of educational outreach project, The Evolved Nest Initiative. Lukas and Darcia chat about the wellness-informed pathway versus the trauma-inducing pathway, the importance of connecting to the natural world and the healing power of play. https://darcianarvaez.com/ https://breakingthecyclefilm.org/ https://evolvednest.org/ http://richardlouv.com/books/vitamin-n https://ecoattachment.dance/ http://kindredmedia.org/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYFv1...
2022-03-31
53 min
That's So Second Millennium
Ep 138 - Darcia Narvaez, Insights About Humanity for a Suffering World
Darcia Narvaez, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota, is a prolific public intellectual who uses many tools of multimedia communication to do research and to address needs of everyday people. Her work enhances and taps deeply rooted wisdom about human nature so that it can be applied in everday tasks, such as parenting. She is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. Links to much of her work can be found at her personal website, as well as her Notre Dame faculty site. A capstone of Prof. Narvaez’s i...
2022-03-28
36 min
Kindred World
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: A Discussion with Authors Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez
Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez discuss their new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview. Learn more about worldview and discover Four Arrows' Indigenous Worldview Chart on Kindred here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/glossary/indigenous-worldview/ The book features selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future. Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin...
2022-03-18
47 min
The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton
#192 Learning From The Indigenous - with Darcia Narvaez
> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. I love Darcia's work because, unlike other psychologists, she doesn't simply look at our society's current pathologies and ask, how do we fix this? She takes in the broad sweep of human societal evolution and notes how our current ways of being and relating haven't always been so. She focuses especially on what we can learn from past and present indigenous cultures. We talk: H...
2021-11-27
1h 05
UTOKing with Gregg
Ep 32 | UTOKing with Darcia Narvaez | Morality starts in the Womb
In Episode 32, Gregg welcomes Dr. Darcia Narvaez. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, and has recently been identified as one of the top 2% of scientists worldwide. She is author of many excellent books and articles, including one of Gregg's all-time favorites, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. In this episode, she describes her conception of the "Evolved Nest," which maps the key social, physiological, and ecological features that foster healthy human socio-emotional and moral development. They explore how this Nest aligns with the UTOK Tree...
2021-10-18
1h 26
Body Literacy Podcast
Attachment Parenting and the Evolved Nest with Dr. Darcia Narvaez
Let us know what you think of this episode!I’m joined for a compelling conversation on the wisdom offered by indigenous cultures, past and present, and the benefits of attachment parenting by Dr. Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, researches moral development and human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher and seminarian, among other things. She grew up as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican but calls the earth her ho...
2021-07-09
54 min
The Dissenter
#471 Darcia Narvaez: Moral Development, and Flourishing
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2021-05-20
58 min
Brendon Marotta Show
The Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez (#011)
Darcia Narvaez shares her research on neurobiology and the development of human morality, along with practical tips to create what she calls an Evolved Nest or way of raising human beings that is natural and loving. Topics Discussed In This Episode [0:57] Daricia Narvaez’s Book on human development “Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality”[02:07] Early childhood experiences and inter-generational effects [03:45] How early life experiences set us up for our “blueprint” life path and how adult healing can potentially change it[07:01] The “Evolved Nest” and how to create it. [09:00] Brain development and the link to breas...
2021-04-27
53 min
A More Beautiful Life with Kate White
Episode 33: Darcia Narvaez and The Evolved Nest
Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, researches moral development and human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher and seminarian, among other things. She grew up as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican but calls the earth her home. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences wellbeing and moral character in children and adults. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association and former editor of...
2021-04-27
24 min
The Ripple Effect Podcast
The Ripple Effect Podcast (Darcia Narvaez, PhD | Primal Parenting & Indigenous Wisdom)
Dr. Darcia Narvaez is an professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, author & researcher. She is an expert in how children are raised in different cultures around the world, human evolution, and morality and much more, which are all topics we discuss.DARCIA NARVAEZ, PhDBooks: https://www.amazon.com/Darcia-Narv%C3%A1ez/e/B001KHO8LOWebsite: https://evolvednest.org/Website: https://sites.nd.edu/darcianarvaez/Website: https://darcianarvaez.com/Website: https://www3.nd.edu/~dnarvaez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoralLandscapesTHE RIPPLE EFFECT PODCAST
2021-04-12
1h 27
The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show
Connecting to Nature: Indigenous Wisdom Meets Neurobiology; Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows
For this show we talk about connection to nature, with the show being inspired by Darcia Narvaez' s study, Indigenous Nature Connection: A 3-Week Intervention Increased Ecological Attachment.
2020-07-13
58 min
Last Born In The Wilderness
248 / Shifting Baselines / Darcia Narvaez
In this episode, I speak with Darcia Narvaez PhD, Professor of Psychology at Notre Dame University. Professor Narvaez is the author and editor of numerous books, including Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, and Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing. She also writes regularly for Psychology Today with her Moral Landscapes column, which explores her work with parenting, child development, self-development, and morality. The first time I spoke with Darcia was almost three years ago, back when I was first beginning to do interviews for this podcast. A great deal has changed and...
2020-05-20
1h 14
The Evolved Nest
23. Dangers Of Separating Children From Caregivers; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: What are the dangers of separating children from their caregivers? How does this early trauma impact lifelong wellness, or illness, for all homo sapiens? Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in he...
2020-04-06
21 min
The Evolved Nest
24. Are Humans Naturally Violent And Sex - Crazed? Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: Are humans naturally violent and sex-crazed? Dr. Narvaez explains why this mythology isn't true about our species. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research about human nature an...
2020-04-06
18 min
The Evolved Nest
22. Basic Needs, Part 2; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: Self-Actualized people have many of the same characteristics and lifestyles. Learn what these are how you can begin implementing them in your own life to further your self-actualization. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences so...
2020-04-06
16 min
The Evolved Nest
21. Basic Needs, Part 1; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: What are basic needs and why do we need to learn about them? From Maslow to Narvaez, learn how the understanding of basic needs has changed. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, we...
2020-04-06
15 min
The Evolved Nest
20. Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: How can we restore our sense of connection to nature and the earth? Experts from several fields share their know-how and guidance. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in...
2020-04-06
21 min
The Evolved Nest
19. Overcoming Nature Deficit Disorder; Evolved Nest and Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: Being disconnected from nature can lead to negative outcomes. Learn how to reconnect with the living world around you. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and ad...
2020-04-05
16 min
The Evolved Nest
18. What is Free Play? The Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: Focusing on yourself alone can be a lonely and even dangerous place. But including others in your circle of concern can lead to great relationship and communion. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal cu...
2020-04-05
19 min
The Evolved Nest
17. Expanding Your Social Self; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: Focusing on yourself alone can be a lonely and even dangerous place. But including others in your circle of concern can lead to great relationship and communion. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal cu...
2020-04-05
18 min
The Evolved Nest
16. Moving Toward Wholeness; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: Wholeness is state of being. It is also a mindset that helps us learn wisdom. Learn how to move toward this state of being and mindset in order to learn wisdom. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early li...
2020-04-05
21 min
The Evolved Nest
15. Moral Fitness; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
DESCRIPTION: How can you be your very best? What does that mean? Find out how to become morally fit. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. Sh...
2020-04-05
17 min
The Evolved Nest
14. Peace Ethology; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
DESCRIPTION: Peace Ethology: Humanity evolved to create cooperative peaceful societies. We are made for peace. But how do we know this? Learn about small-band hunter gathers and our heritage. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research ab...
2020-04-05
19 min
The Evolved Nest
13. Wisdom, Part 3: Baselines for Virtue; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
DESCRIPTION: What’s normal for human beings? Are we necessarily violent? That is not what the evidence shows. Learn why! Primal Wisdom is about being present, being here and now, whereas Western worldviews have abandoned our connection with nature and instead advocate escaping nature and controlling it. How do these worldviews manifest in our culture today? In our way of being in the world today? Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He...
2020-04-05
24 min
The Evolved Nest
12. Wisdom, Part 2: What Is Primal Wisdom? Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. DESCRIPTION: Primal Wisdom: Learn about different kinds of wisdom and how Primal Wisdom differs from Traditional Wisdom. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her th...
2020-04-05
20 min
The Evolved Nest
11. What Is Wisdom? Part 1; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. DESCRIPTION: We discuss what wisdom looks like from the perspective of a healthy-functioning brain and a holistic orientation to living. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and ad...
2020-04-05
11 min
The Evolved Nest
10. The Good Samaritan and Contrasting Moral Mindsets; Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. DESCRIPTION: We use the Good Samaritan story to explain the different moral mindsets people can adopt in everyday life. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. Sh...
2020-04-05
13 min
The Evolved Nest
9. Triune Ethics Meta - Theory; The Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. DESCRIPTION: Discussed are the different moral mindsets people use and which are more conducive to happiness, health and flourishing. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. Sh...
2020-04-05
22 min
The Evolved Nest
8. The Evolved Nest: Attachment Companionship, with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Young and old all experience human attachments but we do so in different ways. Learn what these different ways are and what the healthiest form, companionship attachment, is and how to live it out. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores ho...
2020-04-05
20 min
The Evolved Nest
7. The Evolved Nest: Attachment When It Goes Wrong, Darcia Narvaez, PhD
What happens when you do not receive what you need in early life? The effects of a nonresponsive and insensitive childhood are discussed. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in...
2020-04-05
18 min
The Evolved Nest
6. The Evolved Nest: The Tremendous Benefits Of Breastmilk, with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
It almost seems magical when you begin to learn about all the benefits of breastmilk. Find out why breastmilk provides lifelong benefits for little ones. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and so...
2020-04-05
18 min
The Evolved Nest
5. The Evolved Nest: Ethical Mindsets, with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
We have different ethical mindsets and which we prefer can be affected by our early life experience. Triune Ethics Meta-Theory helps us understand what these mindsets are and why we shift into one or another. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research ex...
2020-04-05
19 min
The Evolved Nest
4. The Evolved Nest: Cycle Of Competitive Detachment, with Darcia Narvaez
When we don’t provide the Evolved Nest to our young, we can end up with a cycle of stress, self-centeredness and detachment, from baby to culture. Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, well...
2020-04-05
21 min
The Evolved Nest
3. The Evolved Nest: Cycle Of Cooperative Companionship with Darcia Narvaez, Phd
Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. DESCRIPTION: Why are some people cooperative and others are not? The Evolved Nest sheds light on how we can grow and raise people of cooperation and build thriving communities. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org. About Darcia Narvaez, PhD Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences so...
2020-04-05
20 min
The Evolved Nest
2. The Evolved Nest: Cycles Of Development, with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Listen to award-winning neuroscience researcher, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, share foundational insights into the Evolved Nest. DESCRIPTION: What we experience in early life and childhood eventually affects the whole society. Find out how we can make big changes to our world, starting with the little ones. Visit the nonprofit initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org.
2020-04-05
20 min
The Evolved Nest
1. Introduction to the Evolved Nest, with Darcia Narvaez, PhD
An Introduction to The Evolved Nest How can we maximize human flourishing? The answer—the Evolved Nest! Learn what the Nest is and how it fosters human potential. The Evolved Nest is a breakthrough concept that integrates findings across fields that bear on child development, child raising and adult behavior. The Evolved Nest promotes optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation, and receptive and sociomoral intelligences. Societal moves away from providing the Evolved Nest have contributed to the ill being and dysregulation we see in one another and society. Learn how to nest your children and re-nest yourself.
2020-03-21
31 min
That's So Second Millennium
Episode 096 - How a Strong Nest Can Lift Society Higher, with Darcia Narvaez
We welcome Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D., to the microphone. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in developmental cognition, the human brain, and behavior. She has authored or edited numerous books, including Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing (2019); Basic needs, wellbeing and morality: Fulfilling human potential (2018); and Developing the virtues: Integrating perspectives (2016). A cornerstone of her research, Neurobiology and the development of human morality: Evolution, culture and wisdom (2014), received the Expanded Reason Award from University Francisco de Vitoria and the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation. The award recognizes innovation in scie...
2020-03-09
38 min
The Moral Science Podcast
Indigenous Wisdom with Darcia Narvaez
Dr. Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. There, she directs the Evolved Developmental Morality Lab, where her program of research concerns how provision of physical, emotional, and social resources early in life bear upon the development of ethical behavior. In this episode, we discuss her recent book, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing, edited along with Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, and Georges Enderle. The conversation focuses on indigenous ethical traditions, and how those traditions conceptualize humanity’s relationship with and responsibilities to the natural world. Tr...
2020-02-11
51 min
Equal Time For Freethought
Show 597: Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez on Basic Needs, Wellbeing, and Morality Dr. Narvaez’ research explores questions of species-typical and species-atypical development in terms of wellbeing, morality, and sustainable wisdom. She examines how early life experience (the evolved nest) influences moral functioning and wellbeing in children and adults. She integrates evolutionary, anthropological, neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her work. Questions that interest her include: How does early experience shape human nature? What do sustainable indigenous societies have to teach the modern world? What types of moral orientations do individuals develop in species-typical and -atypical environments? What is indigenous ecological wis...
2019-09-25
00 min
Equal Time For Freethought
Show 597: Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez on Basic Needs, Wellbeing, and Morality Dr. Narvaez’ research explores questions of species-typical and species-atypical development in terms of wellbeing, morality, and sustainable wisdom. She examines how early life experience (the evolved nest) influences moral functioning and wellbeing in children and adults. She integrates evolutionary, anthropological, neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her work. Questions that interest her include: How does early experience shape human nature? What do sustainable indigenous societies have to teach the modern world? What types of moral orientations do individuals develop in species-typical and -atypical environments? What is indigenous ecological wis...
2019-09-25
00 min
The Moral Science Podcast
The Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez
Dr. Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. There, she directs the Evolved Developmental Morality Lab, where her program of research concerns how provision of physical, emotional, and social resources early in life bear upon the development of ethical behavior. This early physical and social environment, the so-called “evolved nest,” and it’s effects are the topic of our conversation today. Her recent work and book, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing, concerns understanding and integrating indigenous wisdom for how to live a good life. In addition to her scholarly works...
2019-09-03
1h 05
The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show
Indigenous Wisdom: Essential Learnings From Native Americans: Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows
Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows, among the co-authors of an incredible new book, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing
2019-08-26
58 min
Untaming
1. Darcia Narvaez: What Does A Human Really Need?
Award-winning neuroscience researcher Doctor Darcia Narvaez was born in Minneapolis and spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia and Spain. She currently lives in South Bend, Indiana with her husband Daniel. Her current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and educational sciences in her theories and research about human nature and human development. Show Notes Discussed in this episode: Book: Breastfeeding Older Children: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7176041...
2019-05-31
1h 05
That's So Second Millennium
Episode 056 - Darcia Narvaez on the (other) tragedy of the commons and moral/economic disengagement in civilized society
Today we present the second half of the interview with Darcia Narvaez, social scientist at Notre Dame and a specialist in childhood inculturation, attachment, and bonding issues. We start out this half of the interview with a discussion of what Karl Polyani called the "great transformation" of European society, involving the breakdown of the pre-modern order and its safeguards for a stable population by means of understandings about community use of land, perhaps resulting in the popularity of emigration to the New World by dispirited, dispossessed, and to some extent dangerous people. Several times Darcia...
2019-04-22
27 min
Talk World Radio
Talk Nation Radio: Darcia Narvaez on Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality
Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and focuses on moral development and flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture and moral character. One of her recent books, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. She writes a popular blog for Psychology Today (“Moral Landscapes”).
2019-03-20
29 min
Self-Reg - Science That Resonates
Darcia Narvaez - The Evolved Nest
Dr. Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame specializing in ethical development and moral education, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association.In this episode of Self-Reg: Science That Resonates, Dr. Narvaez talks about The Evolved Nest—the things that all children need surrounding them in the early years of life.
2019-02-11
56 min
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Darcia Narvaez - Reclaiming Humanity
In this second interview in our Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health series, Dr. Sharna Olfman interviews Dr. Darcia Narvaez. In 1955, Erich Fromm published a book called The Sane Society. The basic premise is that cultures that support our existential needs for love, community, autonomy, creative expression, purpose, meaning, and communion with nature, enable us to become fully actualized, sane human, beings. Cultures that fail to do so, engender mental illness. Darcia Narvaez,1 a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, has taken up the mantle of Fromm's quest to identify and promote sane cultural p...
2018-12-21
1h 04
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Darcia Narvaez - Reclaiming Humanity
In this second interview in our Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health series, Dr. Sharna Olfman interviews Dr. Darcia Narvaez. In 1955, Erich Fromm published a book called The Sane Society. The basic premise is that cultures that support our existential needs for love, community, autonomy, creative expression, purpose, meaning, and communion with nature, enable us to become fully actualized, sane human, beings. Cultures that fail to do so, engender mental illness. Darcia Narvaez,1 a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, has taken up the mantle of Fromm's quest to identify and promote sane cultural p...
2018-12-21
1h 04
Adventures Through The Mind
Primal Parenting and The Evolved Nest w/ Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. ~ Ep 52
Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez's current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture and moral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research about moral development. *** If you are enjoying the show, I ask you to please contribute to the show by way of a one-time donation or by becoming a continuous su...
2017-07-26
1h 41
Last Born In The Wilderness
69 / The Bow That Is Stable / Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, where she studies flourishing and compassionate moral development and ecological attachment in children and adults. She is the author or editor of dozens of books, chapters and articles. Her recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, won the William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and from the American Education Research Association’s Moral Development and Education SIG. She writes a popular blog for Psychology Today, Moral Landscapes. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/darcia-narvaez // Sustain + support: https://ww...
2017-07-25
1h 11
The Wild Sovereign Soul Show
Why reclaiming connection is the solution to the world's challenges. A Happy Hour Conversation with Darcia Narvaez
This week's show is with Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Darcia publishes extensively on moral development and education. Author or editor of 13 books, her most recent authored books include Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination, and Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which won the William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. She is executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. She also writes a popular blog for Psychology Today ("Mor...
2017-02-01
47 min
The Ripple Effect Podcast
The Ripple Effect Podcast #112 (Darcia Narvaez,PhD)
Dr. Darcia Narvaez is an professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, author & researcher. She is an expert in how human beings raise children in different cultures around the world.Dr. Narvaez academic scholarship has moved from work on nonconscious moral rationality (in the 1990s), to moral character education in the schools (late 1990s- early 2000s), to the neurobiology of moral development (mid 2000s to present), to the study of evolved parenting practices (presently), and the study of small-band hunter-gatherers who represent the type of society in which humans evolved (presently). All this comes together in...
2017-01-02
1h 08
The Wild Sovereign Soul Show
How to raise a happy, healthy human. A Happy Hour Conversation with Darcia Narvaez
This week's show is with Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Darcia publishes extensively on moral development and education. Author or editor of 13 books, her most recent authored books include Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination, and Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which won the William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. She is executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. She also writes a popular blog for Psychology Today ("Mor...
2016-12-06
45 min
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
210 - Darcia Narvaez (Primal Parenting)
Darcia Narvaez teaches in the Psychology department at the University of Notre Dame. She's an expert in how human beings raise children in various cultures around the world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe
2016-10-31
1h 25
Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching
Podcast 187, Darcia Narvaez on Moral Education (22-6-14)
In this podcast, Professor Darcia Narvaez from the University of Notre Dame discusses the topic of moral education. She mentions the following two websites in the course of the programme which contain materials which are useful for teachers who wish to work on this topic with their students: https://cee.nd.edu/curriculum/curriculum1.shtml and http://www.devstu.org/research-child-development-project.
2014-06-23
43 min